To the History of the “Idealistic Direction” in the Russian Liberation Movement: M.O. Gershenzon against P.B. Struve

Abstract

Russian social-liberalism was born at the beginning of the XXth century, first of all, in area of Russian radical socialists. Bibliographically well known, but now for the first time introduced into scientific context, the polemic of the literary historian Michael Gershenzon and the political actor and thinker Peter Struve represents the process of developing the values of social liberalism between the Leo Tolstoy’s teaching and the aims of political liberation.